Event class: district, representatives, seat, ran, house, elected, congressional district, republican, run, incumbent

Events with high posterior probability

Brad Miller (politician)	In 2002, Miller was elected to represent North Carolina's 13th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.
Melissa Hart (politician)	In November 2000 Hart was elected to the House of Representatives from the Fourth District of the State of Pennsylvania, winning an open seat previously held by a Democrat.
David Rivera	This created an opening in the seat and prompted Rivera to announce he would run for Florida's 25th congressional district on February 25, 2010.
Steven Bradford	Bradford was elected to represent the 51st district in a special election held on September 1, 2009, after Curren Price resigned his seat to take a seat in the California State Senate.
Coy Privette	In 1992, he ran unsuccessfully for the U. S. House of Representatives in North Carolina's 8th congressional district.
Daniel S. Sullivan	On October 15, 2013, he announced his candidacy as a Republican for the United States Senate seat from Alaska that is currently held by Mark Begich.
Helen Halyard	In 1976 she ran for the House again, for New York's 19th congressional district, losing to incumbent Charles B. Rangel.
Sal Pace	Pace announced that he would not seek reelection to his House district 46 seat in 2012, and would instead enter the race for Colorado's 3rd Congressional District.
Bart Stupak	In 2008 Casperson unsuccessfully challenged Bart Stupak, the incumbent for Michigan's 1st Congressional district seat in the United States House of Representatives.
Steve Forbes	On August 26, 2010, Forbes formally endorsed Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Republican candidate for the U. S. House of Representatives in the 2nd Congressional District of Iowa.
Benton Jay Hall	However, in 1884, Hall ran again for the 1st district seat and prevailed, the first Democrat to take that seat since the outbreak of the Civil War.
Richard S. Arnold	He lost in 1966 to David Hampton Pryor of Camden for the Fourth Congressional District seat vacated by then newly appointed U. S. District Judge Oren Harris.
David Thibodaux	In 1990, Thibodaux ran for the U. S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 7th congressional district.
Shirley Smith (politician)	When incumbent C. J. Prentiss decided to run for the Ohio Senate, Smith and four other Democrats sought to replace her in the 1998 primary election.
Eugene Branstool	Following redistricting in 1982, Branstool opted to make a run for the Ohio Senate, running for a newly drawn district against Sam Speck, whose home had been drawn out of his former district.
Kevin J. Boyle	Kevin was elected to the House of Representatives in November 2010 when he ran against 32-year incumbent and former Speaker of the Pennsylvania House John Perzel.
Edward B. Almon	In 1914, Almon ran as a Democratic Party candidate for the United States House of Representatives and won.
Thomas C. Sawyer	The redistricting following the 2000 census eliminated Sawyer's district.
Gus Bilirakis	Michael Bilirakis announced his retirement in 2006, and Gus Bilirakis immediately jumped into the race to succeed his father in what was then the 9th District.
Les Roberts (epidemiologist)	Roberts campaigned for office in 2006, running in the Democratic primary for the U. S. House of Representatives seat of the 24th Congressional District in Chenango County, New York.
John Dingell	In 2002, redistricting merged Dingell's 16th District with the Washtenaw County and western Wayne County - based 13th District, represented by fellow Democratic Representative Lynn Rivers, whom Dingell also bested in the Democratic primary.
Roy C. Strickland	In 1972, when he was twenty-nine and residing in Gonzales, Louisiana, Strickland ran as a Republican for the open seat in Louisiana's 8th congressional district.
Rebecca McClanahan	In 2012 she ran as a Democratic candidate for the newly created Missouri House 3rd district, but was defeated by Republican and former state representative Nate Walker.
Anne Zerr	Representative Zerr first ran for office in 2008, hoping to fill the 18th district Missouri House seat vacated by Tom Dempsey.
Anna Eshoo	; 2012 After redistricting, Eshoo ran for and won re-election in California's 18th congressional district based in San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz counties.
Toni Atkins	In November 2012 she ran in the 78th Assembly district due to redistricting, and won with 62 % of the vote.
Clifford Davis (politician)	His district was renumbered as the 9th District after Tennessee lost a district in the 1950 Census.
Michael Benjamin (investor)	In 1996, at the age of 25, Benjamin was the Republican nominee for the U. S. Congress from New York's 8th district, covering parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Byron Looper	In 1988, Looper ran for the Georgia House of Representatives as a Democrat, losing to Wyc Orr in the Democratic primary.
Thad Cochran	In 1972, Democratic Congressman Charles H. Griffin of decided not to run for a third full term.
Tom Shively	Tom Shively first ran for the Missouri House of Representatives in 2002, losing to Chris Shoemaker.
John Breaux	He was not a candidate for re-election to the House of Representatives in 1986, but was instead elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1986.
Parker Griffith	His victory, and that of Bobby Bright in the 2nd District, gave Alabama two white Democratic congressmen for the first time since Glen Browder and Tom Bevill left the House in 1997.
Rodolfo Biazon	Biazon ran for the open seat of his son, Ruffy in the lone district in 2010 as he was term-limited.
Dede Scozzafava	Scozzafava considered running in a special election for the 48th state Senate district, which includes most of the northwestern portion of her former assembly district, in 2008.
Frank Riggs	In 1998, State Senator Mike Thompson, who was due to be termed out of his seat, decided to run for the 1st District House seat, and Riggs decided not to run for re-election.
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Alan Lowenthal	On November 6, 2012, Lowenthal was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives from California's 47th congressional district after defeating Republican Gary DeLong.
Vernon Sykes	In 2006, Barbara Sykes decided to run for state auditor, and Vernon sought the seat again.
Jerry Newton (politician)	Newton was first elected to the house in 2008, succeeding six-term Representative Kathy Tingelstad, who did not seek re-election.
Daniel Biss	On November 10, 2011, Biss announced his intent to run for the Illinois Senate seat held by retiring Senator Jeffrey Schoenberg.
Lucien Lester Ainsworth	In 1874, Ainsworth ran as a Democrat to represent Iowa's 3rd congressional district in the U. S. House.
Sherman Parker	Parker left the House in 2006 to run for Congress, but lost the Republican nomination to the incumbent, Rep. Todd Akin.
Robert B. Sanderson	In 1867, Sanderson advanced to the Senate to represent the 25th Senate District (Columbia County) (he succeeded Jonathan Bowman in the Senate, and was succeeded in the Assembly by Ira Ford, both of the same party with himself) ; and was assigned to the committees on roads, bridge s and ferries ; and on engrossed bill s.
Mark Lesko	In 2009, Lesko was the Democratic candidate for the open Brookhaven Town Supervisor position, which was vacated by Democrat Brian X. Foley.
John Kline (politician)	Kline made his first run for office in 1998, when he challenged 6th District Democratic incumbent Bill Luther and lost, taking 46 % of the vote.
Steve Stivers	In November 2007, Stivers announced he would run for election to Congress in Ohio's 15th District, a seat held by retiring Republican member Deborah Pryce.
Quico Canseco	thumb | left | 200px | Canseco at a campaign rally in San Antonio ; 2004 Canseco ran for the newly redrawn Texas' 28th congressional district.
Al Taubenberger	In 2012, Taubenberger once again ran for office, running for state Representative from the 172nd legislative district against freshman incumbent Rep. Kevin J. Boyle.
Craig Coughlin	He resigned in 2009 to run for the General Assembly seat vacated by Joseph Vas, after the Democratic candidate, South Amboy Mayor John O'Leary, dropped out of the race.
Christine Johnson (Utah politician)	When state representative Ross I. Romero announced that he would seek a state senate seat in 2006, Johnson ran to replace him in the House.
Mark Udall	After only one term in the Colorado House of Representatives, in 1998 Udall won the Democratic nomination for Colorado's 2nd congressional district, after 12-year incumbent David Skaggs retired.
Jon Runyan	; 2010 Runyan won the seat against Democratic incumbent John Adler for.
Lincoln Davis	Midway through his second term in the State Senate, in 2002, Davis ran for the Democratic nomination in the 4th District when four-term Republican incumbent Van Hilleary gave up the seat to make what would ultimately be an unsuccessful run for governor.
Monique D. Davis	In 2006, Davis was re-elected to the Illinois House of Representatives' 27th district after she ran unopposed for re-election.
Art Martinez de Vara	In the 2008 General Election, Martinez de Vara was elected as a Republican to serve in the Electoral College representing the 23rd Congressional District of Texas.
Adam Hasner	Hasner announced on February 1, 2012 that he would end his campaign for U. S. Senate in Florida and instead run for United States House of Representatives in Florida's 22nd Congressional District, which includes many of the coastal communities of Broward and Palm Beach Counties that he represented in the Florida House of Representatives.
Oscar L. Auf der Heide	In redistricting following the United States Census, 1930, Auf der Heide was shifted to the newly created 14th congressional district.
Marsha Blackburn	Blackburn has been a member of the following committees : Redistricting after the 2000 Census moved Blackburn's home from the 6th District into the 7th District.
Jamie L. Whitten	In 1941, Whitten was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in a special election to represent the state's 2nd District, in the northern part of the state.
George Miller (California politician)	In 1974, incumbent Democratic U. S. Representative Ron Dellums decided to run in the newly redrawn 8th district.
Matthew Driscoll	On April 26, 2007, Driscoll announced that he would not seek the office of County Executive, which has been left open due to the retirement of longtime Republican incumbent Nicholas Pirro.
Sander Levin	His son, Andy, was the 2006 Democratic candidate for the Michigan Senate in the 13th Senate District, losing in a tight race to John Pappageorge.
Louis Stokes	He shifted to the newly created 11th District, covering much of the same area following a 1992 redistricting.
Bob Schwartz	Schwartz began investigating a run against long-time incumbent Democrat Jim Cooper in Tennessee's Fifth Congressional District in 2009.
Glen Klippenstein	He ran for the 5th District House of Representatives in 2010, defeating Ken Gillespie and Glen B. Crowther in the August Republican primary.
Patricia A. Madrid	Madrid ran in 2006 for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district.
Bill Orton	In 1990, Orton ran for the open 3rd District seat, his first bid for public office.
David Keene	After graduating from college, he ran for the Wisconsin State Senate in 1969 at age 24 in a special election to replace Frank E. Panzer who had died in office in August that year.
Joshua James Guppey	In 1862, Guppey was the Democratic candidate for the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district.
Mary Singleton	Singleton was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 1972 for District 16, winning the Democratic nomination and facing no Republican opponent.
Jim Waldman	Following the inability of Ron Greenstein to seek re-election to the Florida House of Representatives in 2006, Waldman ran to succeed him in the 95th District, which stretched from Coconut Creek to Pompano Beach in northeastern Broward County.
Howie Hawkins	Hawkins ran for United States Congress in New York's 25th congressional district on the Green Populist line (which has no connection to the Green Party).
Merwin Coad	Coad's home county (Boone) was included in Iowa's 5th congressional district, which had been represented since 1959 by popular fellow Democrat Neal Smith.
Tom Hackbarth	Prior to the 2002 legislative redistricting, he represented the old District 50A.
Joyce Beatty	After redistricting, she decided to run in the newly redrawn Ohio's 27th House District and won re-election to a second term in 2002 with 82 % of the vote.
Sam Rohrer	Rohrer was elected to the State House in November 1992, succeeding retiring Republican Jim Gallen.
Kristina Roegner	When Mike Moran won the 42nd District in 2008, he took a seat in what was traditionally a Republican district.
John Marty	The 1992 legislative redistricting, in conjunction with the U. S. Census, changed Marty's Senate District from 63 to 54.
Martha Roby	; 2010 Roby challenged incumbent Democrat U. S. Congressman and former Montgomery Mayor Bobby Bright in Alabama's 2nd congressional district.
Peter Welch	When Vermont's lone U. S. House member, Bernie Sanders decided to run for the U. S. Senate in 2006, Welch chose to run for Sanders' seat.
Jonathan P. Dolliver	He easily won the general election, and began to represent in north-central Iowa in the United States House of Representatives in 1889.
Charles Diggs	In 1954, Diggs defeated incumbent U. S. Representative George D. O'Brien in the Democratic Party primary elections for Michigan's 13th congressional district.
Althea Garrison	Garrison ran again for the 5th Suffolk district in the Massachusetts House in 2010 and finished third in the Democratic primary.
Lewis Williams Douglas	When Carl Hayden, Arizona's lone Congressman, announced that he would challenge the state's incumbent junior senator, Ralph H. Cameron, in 1926, Douglas decided to enter the race to succeed Hayden.
Larry LaRocco	LaRocco would be the last Democrat to represent Idaho in Congress until the election of Walt Minnick to the 1st congressional district seat in 2008.
Paul Broun	Broun first ran for public office in 1990, challenging Democratic U. S. Congressman Richard Ray, of Georgia's 3rd congressional district.
Mark Kennedy (politician)	: See also : United States Senate election in Minnesota, 2006 Kennedy ran against DFL candidate and Hennepin County Attorney Amy Klobuchar for the U. S. Senate seat being vacated by DFL Senator Mark Dayton.
Adam Kokesh	In 2010, Kokesh ran unsuccessfully in the primary for the Republican nomination for New Mexico's 3rd congressional district seat.
Sally J. Lieber	Lieber was also a 2012 candidate for California's newly drawn 13th State Senate District, which includes northern Santa Clara County and much of San Mateo, but lost to Jerry Hill on November 6, 2012.
Thaddeus M. Machrowicz	In 1950, Machrowicz defeated incumbent Democrat George G. Sadowski in the Democratic Party primary election and went on to be elected to represent Michigan's 1st congressional district in the 82nd United States Congress.
Steve Forbes	On September 2, 2010, Forbes formally endorsed State Representative Justin Amash, Republican candidate for the U. S. House of Representatives in Michigan's 3rd congressional district.
Pam Byrnes	On July 18, 2013, Pam Byrnes announced that she will run as a Democratic candidate to challenge Republican Representative Tim Walberg in Michigan's 7th congressional district.
George W. Gregory	In 1929, Gregory ran for a seat in the Washington State Senate from the 37th District.
Arlen Specter	In 1980, Specter became the Republican nominee for Senate when Republican incumbent Richard Schweiker announced his retirement.
Grace Meng	In June 2012, Meng faced fellow Assembly member Rory Lancman and New York City Council member Elizabeth Crowley in a primary election for New York's 6th congressional district and won.
Collin Peterson	; 1980s In 1984, he ran for Minnesota's 7th congressional district in Northwestern Minnesota, held by Republican Arlan Stangeland.
Tom Harkin	In 1972, the same year that he graduated from law school, Harkin returned to Iowa and immediately ran against an incumbent Republican Congressman, William J. Scherle.
Hansen Clarke	After Michigan lost a congressional district in redistricting, most of Clarke's district became the 14th District.
John Adler	In 2012, Shelley Adler ran against Runyan for Adler's old U. S. House seat.